Nordex Group with more than 5000 employees with subsidiaries in Germany and Spain, among other countries is a wind turbine manufacturer.

The demands on data quality and data management in the wind farm about the operating status of the turbines and the power generation continue to increase. This is why the Nordex Group needs not only a powerful but also a secure hardware platform to ensure optimum operation and good connectivity of the wind farms.

SIMATIC IPC1047 Industry PC: Compared with the competition, the system was the only one to meet all of Nordex's requirements, including an ambient temperature of up to 50 degrees in server operation, long service life, spare parts availability, industrial suitability and3 customer variants as customized solutions

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• 2 x Xeon CPU
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• Redundant power supply, Raid system
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• 12 - 28 CPU cores, up to 2 TB RAM

With the SIMATIC IPC1047, Nordex Group has a new hardware platform for the SCADA system of its current turbine portfolio. The industry PCs are used on site in the wind farm as Industrial Edge platform but can also be used offline as a stand-alone SCADA system.